News: Anna Anthropy Announces Bundle “Twine and Punishment”

Game developer Anna Anthropy, also known as Auntie Pixelante, has announced a Twine bundle named Twine and Punishment. This is remarkable for two reasons: 1) no one has apparently named a Twine bundle “Twine and Punishment” before and it’s a definite missed opportunity 2) It features a handful of interesting games.

Twine and Punishment has an announced release date of November 1. The games set to be included are:

star Court

From Anna Anthropy’s site:

star court is based on a little old mac game called kangaroo court that my friend miguel made me play on his little old mac. “it’s basically an anna anthropy game,” he said. when the first witness turned out to be “a very friendly person with large insect-like eyes and a ray gun,” i realized it was true. when the game i had planned for my free patreon last month didn’t work out (it was a writing game, but the scoring mechanisms as they stood didn’t really facilitate writing interesting stories), i decided to write my own version of kangaroo court, set in the queer space opera universe of my other twine games.

by the time i crossed the 11,000 work mark – the size of a very very VERY scary house – i realized the game wouldn’t be done by the end of the month. it ended up my biggest twine project to date, with almost 30,000 words in over 300 passages (v.v.v. scary house, for comparison, has around 200). it’s just really branchy – i wanted it to contain a lot of chance and a lot of choices. and i’m finding it really easy to write for a pulp universe that is basically designed to facilitate as many weird ideas as possible. (spoilers: there is another entry in this series coming up soon!)

Where in the galaxy is kremlin san antonio?

From the itch.io site:

can you follow nefarious criminal mastermind kremlin san antonio’s trail of theft from planet to planet? use the clues you find and your encyclopedia of local worlds to pick up her trail!

mission to planet x

From the first page of the Twine:

DEAR AGENT: IN THIS PACKAGE IS A VIAL OF A CONTRABAND SHRINKING AGENT, SHRINKDEX-1. IT COMES FROM THE PRIVATE ARSENAL OF QUEEN LESBIONICA HERSELF. YOU ARE TO DELIVER IT TO AN AGENT OF AN UNDISCLOSED FOREIGN NATION ON THE BORDER WORLD, PLANET X.

the hunt for the gay planet

From Anna Anthropy’s site:

i’ve been saying for a while now that supposedly lgbt-friendly game developers like bioware only see queer people (lgb people, at least) as consumers. nothing could make the point more clearly than bioware’s decision to add gay romances to star wars: the old republic – on a single planet in the galaxy, which players have to pay for the privilege of visiting. pay to enter a dystopian future where queers are exiled to a far-off, backwater planet!

and the robot horse your rode in on

From Anna Anthropy’s site:

i’ll be honest: i made this whole game just so i could write a scene where a girl licks water off the foot of another girl while buried to her neck in the desert. but then i asked myself: why is this girl buried to her neck in the desert? such questions are the seeds of stories. girls who end up buried to their necks in the desert, i thought, aren’t always the most honest banditas. here was an opportunity to explore a conceit i haven’t really spent that much time with: a dishonest narrator. twine was a perfect fit: thanks to the ambiguity of hypertext, the player character can complete her schemes even if the player doesn’t know explicitly what they are.

The bundle will also include the game Keep Dreaming Space Cowgirl, a game I could not find any information on. The Twine and Punishment bundle will be available on November 1. Keep an eye out on Anna Anthropy’s Twitter account for up to date information.